Wordpress is the leading platform that businesses and individuals use for blogging. One of the most common components of Wordpress blogs and other blogging platforms is RSS, or Really Simple Syndication. This feature enables users to subscribe to a blog, thereby allowing users to get notified whenever you update your blog. RSS also enables users to read your blog in their preferred RSS reader without even going to your blog.
Recently, an all-new generation of RSS was unveiled by Wordpress called RSS Cloud. While only two RSS readers support RSS Clound thus far, more are likely to follow. The difference between standard RSS2.0 and RSS Cloud is that the latter delivers content in real time. Instead of polling a server periodically, RSSCould will enable real time blog updates to available in RSS readers.
About half a million blogs are created each month on Wordpress, which is precisely why common feed readers, including Google Reader, are likely to support RSS Cloud. After all, if Google Reader users discover that their favorite RSS reader only updates every 15 to 60 minutes while others deliver updates in real time, users will quickly adopt other platforms.
Real-time communication is becoming a hot trend thanks to services like Twitter. When breaking news happens, conversations seem to erupt on Twitter even before they spread on major news outlets. Plus, RSS already makes blogs highly measurable, and when with a real-time component there could be an even greater opportunity for RSS in the near future.
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